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THE FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL OF<br/>
<span class=large>JOHN</span>
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CHAPTER 2
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Christ is our Advocate with the Father—We know God by obedience—Love not the world—Antichrists shall come in the last days.
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My</span> little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not.  <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/1a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST 1 Jn. 2: 1  . . .  But if any man sin and repent, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.">And</a> if any man sin, we have an <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/2/1b" mark="b" type="R" title="GR intercessor, helper, comforter; TG Jesus Christ, Authority of; TG Jesus Christ, Relationships with the Father; TG Salvation, Plan of.">advocate</a> with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
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And he is the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Atonement through; TG Jesus Christ, Redeemer; TG Jesus Christ, Savior; TG Redemption; TG Remission of Sins.">propitiation</a> for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for <i>the sins of</i> the whole <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/2/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Alma 11: 41 (40-41); D&C 21: 9; D&C 76: 41 (41-43).">world</a>.
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And hereby we do know that we know him, if we <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Jn. 3: 22 (22-24); 1 Jn. 5: 3 (2-3).">keep</a> his commandments.
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He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Jn. 3: 6.">commandments</a>, is a <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/2/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Lying.">liar</a>, and the truth is not in him.
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But whoso <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Obedience.">keepeth</a> his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/2/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Cor. 5: 17.">in</a> him.
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He that saith he <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 15: 4.">abideth</a> in him ought himself also so to <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/2/6b" mark="b" type="A" title="Matt. 11: 29; 2 Ne. 31: 12 (12-13); Moro. 7: 4 (3-4); D&C 19: 23.">walk</a>, even as he walked.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/7a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST 1 Jn. 2: 7 Brethren, I write a new commandment unto you, but it is the same commandment which ye had from the beginning  . . .">Brethren</a>, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning.  The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
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Again, a new commandment I write unto you, <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/8a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST 1 Jn. 2: 8  . . .  which thing was of old ordained of God; and is true in him, and in you  . . .">which</a> thing is true in him and in you: because the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/2/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Darkness, Spiritual.">darkness</a> is <sup>c</sup><a href="1_jn/2/8c" mark="c" type="P" title="GR passing away.">past</a>, and the true <sup>d</sup><a href="1_jn/2/8d" mark="d" type="A" title="2 Ne. 3: 5; D&C 50: 24.">light</a> now shineth.
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He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
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He that <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/10a" mark="a" type="C" title="D&C 95: 12; TG Family, Love within; TG Love.">loveth</a> his <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/2/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Brotherhood and Sisterhood.">brother</a> abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
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But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Walking in Darkness.">walketh</a> in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
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I <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Scriptures, Writing.">write</a> unto you, little <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/2/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mosiah 5: 7; Moses 6: 52.">children</a>, because your sins are forgiven you <sup>c</sup><a href="1_jn/2/12c" mark="c" type="P" title="GR because of, through his name.">for</a> his <sup>d</sup><a href="1_jn/2/12d" mark="d" type="A" title="1 Sam. 12: 22; Ps. 23: 3; Acts 4: 12; 1 Ne. 20: 9.">name</a>’s sake.
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I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him <i>that is</i> from the beginning.  I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one.  I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
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I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him <i>that is</i> from the beginning.  I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.
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Love not the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/15a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG World.">world</a>, neither the things <i>that are</i> in the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/2/15b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Worldliness.">world</a>.  If any man love the world, the <sup>c</sup><a href="1_jn/2/15c" mark="c" type="A" title="D&C 95: 12.">love</a> of the Father is not in him.
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For all that <i>is</i> in the world, the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Chastity; TG Lust; TG Sensuality.">lust</a> of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/2/16b" mark="b" type="R" title="GR haughtiness, ostentation; TG Pride.">pride</a> of life, is not of the Father, but is of the <sup>c</sup><a href="1_jn/2/16c" mark="c" type="A" title="Mark 7: 21 (21-22).">world</a>.
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Cor. 7: 31 (29-31).">world</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/2/17b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG World, End of.">passeth</a> away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the <sup>c</sup><a href="1_jn/2/17c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG God, Will of.">will</a> of God <sup>d</sup><a href="1_jn/2/17d" mark="d" type="A" title="Ps. 125: 1; 3 Ne. 14: 21.">abideth</a> for ever.
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Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Antichrist; TG False Prophets.">antichrist</a> shall come, even now are there many <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/2/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of the Early Christian Church.">antichrists</a>; whereby we know that it is the last time.
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They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would <i>no doubt</i> have continued with us: but <i>they went out,</i> that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
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But ye have an <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/20a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR anointing.">unction</a> from the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/2/20b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Holiness.">Holy</a> One, and ye know all things.
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I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.
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Who is a <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 5: 39 (38-40).">liar</a> but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?  He is <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/2/22b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Antichrist.">antichrist</a>, that denieth the Father and the Son.
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Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [<i>but</i>] <i>he that <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 14: 7.">acknowledgeth</a> the Son hath the Father also.</i>
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Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning.  If that which ye have heard from the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Jn. 1: 6.">beginning</a> shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.
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And this is the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/25a" mark="a" type="C" title="D&C 88: 4; TG Promises.">promise</a> that he hath promised us, <i>even</i> <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/2/25b" mark="b" type="A" title="John 17: 3 (2-3); 2 Ne. 31: 20.">eternal</a> life.
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These <i>things</i> have I written unto you concerning them that <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/26a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR deceive, lead astray, cause to wander.">seduce</a> you.
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But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 43: 15.">teach</a> you: but as the same <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/2/27b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Anointing.">anointing</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="1_jn/2/27c" mark="c" type="A" title="John 6: 45; 1 Thes. 4: 9.">teacheth</a> you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
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And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
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If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth <sup>a</sup><a href="1_jn/2/29a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Righteousness.">righteousness</a> is <sup>b</sup><a href="1_jn/2/29b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Man, New, Spiritually Reborn.">born</a> of him.
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